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It was great to be speaking this week at the University of the West of England MMC conference alongside a brilliant group of people pushing the boundaries of industrialised construction. Edward Jezeph of Homes England led-off with an introduction to MMC, why it’s the future, did an honest assessment of successes and failures and outlined the volume of funding that will flow through the Social Affordable Housing Programme! Ele George highlighted just how far MMC has come, from platform thinking to delivery at scale and used the LEGO Group blocks as an elegant demonstration of the huge variety of options that come from systemised engineering. Grant Davies of Resipoint took us through how high density MEP solutions work to deliver large scale development solutions in housing and other sectors. There’s a real sense of momentum building across the sector, but they also point to the challenge we all know still exists: how we move from capability to consistent, scalable delivery. My contribution on Agile Homes work focused on a simple but critical point: MMC will not happily scale on a high Capex investment model. If we want to deliver housing at the pace and volume the UK needs, particularly in areas like Specialist Supported Housing and Temporary Accommodation, we have to rethink not just how we build, but how we finance and deploy manufacturing capacity. At Agile Homes, we have a different approach: • Low Capex, Distributed Manufacturing, or what we call “Flying Factory” • Materials from regenerative supply chains From Field & Forest to Front Door or F4D for short. • Delivery models aligned with local authority demand for social housing with long-term income models that pension funds can finance. • Integration of what we call Carbon and Social Value Trading as a new finance flow for affordable homes. The conversation is shifting, from “can MMC work?” to “how do we make it work everywhere?” That’s where the opportunity now sits. Thanks to Hector Archila at University of the West of England for hosting, and to everyone contributing to a genuinely constructive and forward-looking discussion. #MMC #ModernMethodsOfConstruction #HousingCrisis #LowCarbon #SocialValue #AgileHomes #OffsiteConstruction #Innovation #UWE

@agile_homes PreFABulous!

We’ve just submitted a planning application for Halton Senior Cohousing Group! Lucy Wood and Pat Steward worked closely with HSCG, a wonderful group of over 55s who choose to live together as a community. Fourteen homes, shared landscaped gardens and a common house where neighbours will meet, eat and share support with each other.  At Agile Homes we know that interdependence and independence combined for later life works. The landscape design is core to how the design works, swales, planting and people flow together. We were able exceed the Biodiversity Net Gain target entirely on site, in a relatively dense layout. Ground screws, rather than trench foundations keeps the hydrology of the site intact! The whole, definitely greater than the sum of its parts! #Cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes

A pleasure to host the @educationgovuk & @ForestryComm at our centre for Low and Innovative Carbon Solutions. We talked all things timber, skills training & education, affordable homes & schools estate. A b We’re called Agile Homes but we also do low carbon affordable schools, because schools, community & housing are always interwoven. 🌱🌾🌳🏗️🏡🌍💚

Opinion: Aligning sustainability and justice, #SUSTICE takes responsibility for reparation of environmental, social and economic impact — my think piece revisited* explores both the drivers and next steps — read in full and free on @SustMeme: buff.ly/gx9cDKk 🌍 ⚖️ 💰 >

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@TweetEco Well said! Great work @agile_homes.

It’s cold and wet! At Agile we know why we do what we do. Here’s our why. #affordablehomes #HousingCrisis #homelessness

Be great to get some social support from our 100,000+ community on X please. 🙌 I hope it's worth a simple share and show your support, in sparking youngsters interest in the wonderful world of construction? We are trying our best, but admit we need some extra help please.. 🙌 constructionedition.co.uk Our thanks to #DiggingwithDave #The_HappyDigger for the mentions on Instagram. Plus @hitachi_uk for running a short promotion, to give away a copy of the Construction Edition official sticker album. We also gave away 200 starter packs at @Plantworx2025 for the "PlantWorx Education Trail" and another 200 starter packs to youngsters at "Plant Operator of the year” run by @ukplantops Plus more than 1,000 additional sticker sheets, between these two events. We worked hard to place the brands, in more than 3100 retails stores in the UK and Ireland making it as accessible as possible to kids. Sadly we have been plagued by retail theft and could do with a little extra help. We are very much looking forward to seeing what #Ausa @BOMAGBuzz @BobcatCompany @CaseCE_EU @JCBmachines @KomatsuMining #Kubota @Liebherr_GB @manitou @Mecalac_CE #Prinoth Crawler Carriers @TakeuchiUK @SanyGroup @SunwardEurope @WackerNeuson & #Yanmar have in mind for it.. 🥳 Every little helps!

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We have just submitted a planning application for 14 new homes and Common House for Halton Senior CoHousing group, but this one is a little different! We call these homes Tam, and they can move! But these are definitely not caravans! Instead they are built to meet and exceed Building Regulations like any other homes. Triple glazed and super-insulated, airtight and made of renewable materials, they are truly low-carbon. So, we can lay them out using new and innovative integration with landscape and SUDs, creating a more coherent whole! This is why we’re called Agile Homes! We have worked closely with planners the local authority, landscape designers and engineers. A community-led development that sets a new and innovative standard for senior living. Well done Lucy Wood, Pat Steward and the rest of the team at Agile! #cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes #SUDs #landscape

Carbon and Social Value Trading! What’s that? 👇

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Carbon & Social Value Trading! It really is time to #BuildWithCarbon! 👇

Carbon and Social Value Trading. What’s that? An affordable home has become the oxymoron of our time! It’s time to think differently about how we deliver properly affordable homes. At Agile Homes we’ve created a new finance flow we call CSVTs. This is 52 seconds from a seminar we are doing in collaboration with Macildowie Recruitment and Retention that explains how it works. Full video is here: youtu.be/r-9wDDU3E50?si… Not compulsory viewing, but we think it will make a difference and so could be worth the watch! #affordablehomes #propertyladder @SustMeme @VSfromCrisis

@Joseph_Boam To all of you making unkind and hurtful comments on this young man’s moustache - 🥸!

@EssexPR In legal circles, this is known as the ‘Shaggy Defence’! So, you’re on safe ground! In no way, shape or form can any of this be down to you posting to your 394,400 on Twitter that you were going to ‘investigate’ the ‘alleged’ attacks! ‘It wasn’t me!’ Well, let’s hope so!🤞

@DreyfusJames For those of you on James’s thread saying that this is not a traditional form of dress. This is a picture of my grandmother taken in 1864! She didn’t fight in two world wars to be disrespected this way! #notcolourised #originalspicegirl 🇬🇧

@RedLipRiots For those of you that are saying that this is not a traditional form of dress. This is a picture of my grandmother taken in 1864! She didn’t fight in two world wars to be disrespected this way! #notcolourised

@ZiaYusufUK @Nigel_Farage The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is not a British Bank. HSBC holdings is headquartered in London, but its ownership is international. They remain committed to Net Zero Targets. Best to actually read their statement. hsbc.com/news-and-views… Keep up the good work!